Institute Staff

The Institute of Current World Affairs shares past fellows’ work from the around the web.

Posts and Dispatches from Institute Staff:

• The Washington Institute: Neri Zilber on protests against Israel’s nation-state law
  While Arabs and Jews unite, fake news divides....

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• The New Republic: Karina Piser on France’s ‘new anti-Semitism’
  A focus on Muslim antipathy toward Jews is letting the rest of the country off the hook....

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• The New Yorker: Nicholas Schmidle on Virgin Galactic’s lead pilot
  The ace pilot risking his life to fulfill Richard Branson's quest to make commercial space travel a reality....

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• The Nation: Karina Piser on breaking France’s race taboo
  A new generation of activists is trying to change the way France conceives of race....

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• World Economic Forum: Cynthia Caron on gender parity in Zambia
  Projects helping provide Zambian women with better access to land....

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• Hoover Institution: Paul Rahe on Turkey’s future
  Is the country no longer part of the West?...

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• WPR: Robbie Corey-Boulet on Mali’s turbulent presidential election campaign
  And other stories making headlines in Africa....

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• NYT: Shannon Sims on Zanzibar’s revolutionary female soccer team
  Told they couldn't play soccer, the women responded by forming a team....

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• The Daily Beast: Neri Zilber on Iran pushing conflict on the Israeli-Syrian border
  Concern growing in Israel as the Syrian civil war reaches its denouement, ...

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• Germans face influx of refugees… in 1958
  As an ICWA fellow during the Cold War, NYT correspondent David Binder found a previous migrant wave to be a boon for the West....

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